His Favourite Graves

Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand s King of Crime.

Moves at a furious pace, even as the walls close in ... everything you want from a thriller and it leaves you gasping Helen Fields

Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me Lee Child

Electrifying Crime Monthly magazine

Our sympathies to swing one way and then the other, and the final twist is clever Literary Review

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To catch a killer...

Maybe you ve got to be one...

Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen s life is falling apart - his father accidentally burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school.

When high-school student, Lucas Connor, is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track - to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Lucas s safe return.

But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Cohen s going to have to make the kind of decision from which there s no coming back ... a decision with deadly consequences...

A furiously paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller exposing the dark underbelly of small-town life, His Favourite Graves is also a twisted and twisty story of father-and-son relationships, and the one last gamble of a desperate man to save everything...

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Uses words as lethal weapons New York Times

Praise for Paul Cleave

Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end Simon Kernick

A true page-turner filled with dread, rage, doubt and more twists than the Remutaka Pass Linwood Barclay

Smart and twisty, this book will get under your skin Liz Nugent

Merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith Publishers Weekly

The sense of dread builds unstoppably Gilly Macmillan

Genuinely haunting and lingers in the memory Daily Mail

Full of ideas and intelligence Literary Review

A true page-turner Guardian

Nerve-shredding Crime Monthly

Tense, thrilling, touching John Connolly

This very clever novel did my head in time and again Michael Robotham

This thriller is one to remember New York Journal of Books

Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where most of his novels are set, and Europe. He’s won the New Zealand Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival’s crime novel of the year award in France, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry in the US and the Ned Kelly in Australia.